Hawaii Fire Department personnel responded to a small fire in a storage area at Queens’ MarketPlace in Waikoloa Friday.
Hawaii Fire Department personnel responded to a small fire in a storage area at Queens’ MarketPlace in Waikoloa Friday.
When units arrived on the scene at about 2:44 p.m., maintenance personnel directed HFD to a commercial building being used for storage, according to a department press release. There, Company 14 reportedly found “light smoke” in the building and identified the point of origin at the base of a temporary wall made of 2×4 boards and plywood.
The affected area was about a square foot, with “multiple cigarette butts” around. Responders used a booster line and hand tools to extinguish the fire, the release stated.
The fire was out by 2:45 p.m. and no injuries were reported, according to the release.
its amazing that the state doesn’t have a air water tanker that is used for just these kind of fires where it could dump 100,000 gallons of water on the fire and stop it in its tracks. instead they use small helios that cant do a fraction of the capacity